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  <h1>About Dokeos </h1>
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<a href="index.html">Documentation</a> &gt; About Dokeos
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    <p>Dokeos is an elearning and course management web application,<br />
      and is free software (GNU GPL). It's translated into 30 languages,<br />
      SCORM compliant, and light and flexible.</p>
    <p>Dokeos supports many different kinds of learning and collaboration activities.<br />
      Teachers/trainers can create, manage and publish their courses through the web.<br />
      Students/trainees can follow courses, read content or participate actively<br />
      through groups, forums, chat.</p>
    <p>Technically, Dokeos is a web application written in PHP that stores data in a <br />
      MySQL database. Users access it using a web browser.</p>
    <p>If you would like to know more or help develop this software, please visit<br />
      our homepage at <a href="http://www.dokeos.com">http://www.dokeos.com</a></p>
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      SCORM</h1>
    Dokeos imports Scorm 1.2 compliant learning contents.<br />
    For more information on Scorm normalisation, see http://www.adlnet.org<br />
    <h1>Licence</h1>
    <p>Dokeos is distributed under the GNU General Public license (GPL).<br />
      Read the <a href="licence.html">GNU General Public license (GPL)</a> .</p>
    <h1>Portability</h1>
    <p>Dokeos is an AMP software. This means it should work on any platform running Apache<br />
      + MySQL + PHP. It is then supposed to work on the following Operating Systems :</p>
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      <li> Linux</li>
      <li> Windows (98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP)</li>
      <li> Unix</li>
      <li> Mac OS X</li>
    </ul>
    <p>It has been tested on </p>
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      <li> Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Debian </li>
      <li> Windows XP, Windows 2000</li>
      <li> Mac OS X 10.3</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Email functions remain silent on systems where there is no mail sending software<br />
      (Sendmail, Postfix, Hamster...), which is the case by default on a Windows machine.</p>
    <h1>Interoperability</h1>
    <p>Dokeos imports Scorm compliant learning contents. It imports then &quot;On the shelve&quot;<br />
      contents from many companies : NETg, Skillsoft, Explio, Microsoft, Macromedia, etc.</p>
    <p>Admin interface imports users through CSV and XML. You can create a CSV file from<br />
      a list of users in MS Excel. OpenOffice can export to both CSV and XML formats.<br />
      Many database management systems, like Oracle, SAP, Access, SQL-Server, LDAP ...<br />
      export to CSV and/or XML.</p>
    <p>Dokeos includes a LDAP module that allows admin to deactivate MySQL authentication<br />
      and replace it by connection to a LDAP directory.</p>
    <p>Client side, Dokeos runs on any browser : Firefox, MS Internet Explorer (5.0+), Netscape (4.7+),<br />
      Mozilla (1.2+), Safari, Opera, ...</p>
    <h1>Dokeos.com</h1>
    <p>Dokeos is also a commercial service company that sells services for Dokeos (hosting, installation, <br />
      custom developments, liveconferencing, training, ...) <br />
      When buying any of these services you also contribute to the Dokeos open source product<br />
      <br />
      You can find more information on the services on <a href="http://www.dokeos.com/services.php">http://www.dokeos.com/services.php</a></p>
    <p><u>Contact address</u>: <br />
      Dokeos<br />
      Rue des Palais 44 Paleizenstraat<br />
      B-1030 Brussels - Belgium<br />
      Tel. +32 (2) 211 34 56<br />
      Mail: <a href="mailto:info@dokeos.com">info@dokeos.com</a> </p>
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